Boozhoo! I am an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe (Bear Clan). I currently work and study on Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀgeh (Cayuga homelands) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where I am a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies Program and a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. I come from a long legacy of Ojibwe historians, researchers, educators, dreamers, and community leaders.

Born and raised on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, I chose to pursue a liberal arts education at the University of Minnesota, Morris, a public land-grant institution that is a former Native American boarding school and the only federally recognized four-year Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution (NASNTI) in the Upper Midwest. In 2019, I earned my B.A. in Medieval Studies, Art History, and Classical Civilizations, was designated a Scholar of the College, and received the Art History Book Award. Soon thereafter I began my graduate studies at Cornell University, New York State’s land-grant institution, where I have earned my M.A. in Medieval Studies (2022), been awarded the Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (2024), the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship (2023–24), and the Dean’s McNair Fellowship (2019), and named a Graduate Dean’s Scholar (2019). I will be finishing my graduate tenure as the Henry Roe Cloud fellow in American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Yale University during the 2025–26 academic year.

As a critical Indigenous medievalist, I research the rhetorics of settler colonialism across the medieval-modern divide. My dissertation project brings texts from early medieval England into conversation with settler documentations of Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nihgeh (Haudenosaunee homelands) during the long nineteenth century. I have collaborative peer-reviewed articles published in Speculum (2025) and Medieval Ecocriticisms (2024).

I have experience teaching both medieval and Indigenous studies topics. I was selected to be a Graduate Teaching Assistantship for a lecture course on “Indigenous North America” (AIIS 1100/AMST 1600/ANTHR 1700) twice, and was an Instructor of Record for a self-designed Freshman Writing Seminar on “Women in Medieval Art and Literature” (MEDVL 1101). As an undergraduate, I served as a Teaching Assistant for Beginning Latin I & II (LAT 1001, 1002), “Ancient to Medieval Art and Architecture” (ARTH 1111), “Interpreting the Visual World: An Introduction to Art History” (ARTH 1021), and “Renaissance to Modern Art” (ARTH 1201).